New York City is one of the business cities in world. It hosted over 41.0 million visitors in 2005. Such star attractions as the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Radio City Rockettes, Times Square and Broadway Shows.

Why is NYC Called the Big Apple? In the 1920s, a sportswriter for the Morning Telegraph named John Fitzgerald overheard stablehands in New Orleans refer to NYC's racetracks as "the Big Apple." He named his column "Around the Big Apple." A decade later, jazz musicians adopted the term to refer to New York City, and especially Harlem, as the jazz capital of the world. There are many apples on the trees of success, they were saying, but when you pick New York City, you pick the big apple.

Why Cabs Are Yellow? John Hertz, who founded the Yellow Cab Company in 1907, chose yellow because he had read a study conducted by the University of Chicago that indicated it was the easiest color to spot. View New York City Photo Collection >>